Henri van de Velde artwork • painting • previously for sale Grazing grey and a cow
Henri van de Velde
Amsterdam 1896-1969 Abcoude
1896-1969
Grazing grey and a cow
oil on canvas 85.3 x 80.0 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1935
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Stichting Kunstbezit Koninklijke Nedlloyd.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Kunstzaal Van Lier, 'Nieuwe werken van Henri van de Velde', 30 maart-18 april 1935.
Henri van de Velde was born in Amsterdam in 1896, where he received lessons from H.M. Krabbé. Important for his development was a stay in Florence (1920-1925), where he became acquainted with early Italian painting. Back in the Netherlands, in response to the highly personal style of impressionism and expressionism, he opted for an objectively detailed representation of nature, in the tradition of Jan van Eyk and Jeroen Bosch. Initially, Van de Velde painted compositions with animals, later almost exclusively Biblical and mythological representations.
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